Diet Pepsi

Paramount Pictures is hoping that Diet Pepsi will prove the perfect fuel for the launch of its "Top Gun" video. Paramount and Pepsi-Cola Co. are teaming up in a massive campaign to promote Diet Pepsi along with the "Top Gun" video, which becomes available March 11. Pepsi will launch a "Top Gun"-inspired advertising campaign Feb. 24 during the Grammy awards program. In exchange, Paramount will include a Diet Pepsi commercial at the beginning of the "Top Gun" video. It marks the...

PepsiCo is changing the look of its single-serve bottles for the first time in nearly two decades. Set to roll out next month in Chicago, the 16- and 20-ounce bottles feature a slightly wider bottom and swirled grip meant to make it easier to hold. Besides the Chicago market, the new bottle also will appear starting in April in New York, Orlando, Ohio and California. The bottles will be phased into other U.S. markets over the next two years. PepsiCo. is also...

Paramount Pictures is hoping that Diet Pepsi will prove the perfect fuel for the launch of its "Top Gun" video. Paramount and Pepsi-Cola Co. are teaming up in a massive campaign to promote Diet Pepsi along with the "Top Gun" video, which becomes available March 11. Pepsi will launch a "Top Gun"-inspired advertising campaign Feb. 24 during the Grammy awards program. In exchange, Paramount will include a Diet Pepsi commercial at the beginning of the "Top Gun" video. ...

Oct 17 (Reuters) - PepsiCo Inc reported lower quarterly earnings on Wednesday, after the stronger U.S. dollar hurt revenue. The maker of Diet Pepsi, Frito-Lay snacks and Tropicana orange juice said net income was $1.90 billion, or $1.21 per share, down from $2.00 billion, or $1.25 per share, a year earlier. Revenue fell 5 percent to $16.65 billion.

There's a chance former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich would have gone to Roots Handmade Pizza in Ukrainian Village Wednesday to watch the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants game on NBC, you know, if not for the fact that he's serving a 14-year sentence on a corruption conviction. Blagojevich visited Roots to watch Cowboys games four to five times last season. I'm told he would sit in the private dining room with just his small group - usually consisting...

Fresh strategy: Pepsi-Cola Co. said it is putting freshness dates on cans and bottles of Diet Pepsi, introducing a new weapon in the soft-drink marketing wars. Diet Pepsi packages will start showing up in stores this week with a label that says, "For best taste, drink by . . ., " with an arrow pointing to the date.

Media make everyone neighbors, and thus when a man in Tacoma, Wash., reported finding a syringe in a can of Diet Pepsi and the word zipped around the nation at the speed of light, there were some predictable developments. First, it became big news, then bigger news as other reports came in, initially in a dribble and then in a small cascade. Syringes were showing up in Pepsi cans all over the place. Other unusual additions to soda cans, nails and the like, also were reported. A...

It wasn't a rat, after all, but probably a frog that an Ormond Beach, Fla., man discovered in his can of Diet Pepsi in July. A federal laboratory confirmed a small animal, possibly a frog or toad, lurked inside the can from which Fred Denegri drank on July 23. He and his wife, Amy, first thought it was a rat, but the couple just received a report from the Food and Drug Administration that determined it was an amphibian. But it still doesn't answer one key question: How did it...

Consumer assurance: Pepsi-Cola Co. said Wednesday it is putting easy-to-read freshness dates on cans and bottles of Diet Pepsi, introducing a new weapon into the soft drink marketing wars. Craig Weatherup, president of Pepsi-Cola North America, said Diet Pepsi packages would begin showing up in stores this week with a label that says "For best taste drink by . . ." with an arrow pointing to the date. He said the freshness dating would be phased in over the rest of the year...

Diet soft drinks have the sweetness without the calories of their classic counterparts thanks to artificial sweeteners that are many times sweeter than regular sugar and therefore used in much smaller doses. Here's a breakdown of the artificial sweeteners currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, plus the new natural sweetener stevia, now available in some foods. Sources: Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, Center for Science in the Public Interest Acesulfame-potassium ...

I can't believe the management there would let someone in your obviously "taste-disturbed" state write an article trying to push us incredibly brilliant, handsome and all-around crusaders for right and justice off a cliff just because you have lost all your taste buds and couldn't deal with a Diet Pepsi revolution in your refrigerator. I just want you to know there is an army (maybe a little smaller than your evil empire) standing up for our Diet Pepsi. We will NEVER let you win. We call ourselves the Pepsi...

Only John Daly. Only Daly could go into a major without playing a practice round on the tournament course. Instead, riding a cart, he hit some balls at a nearby casino course. Mostly he played the slots. "Did good the first day," he said. "Didn't do too good the other day." Only Daly, who has to be carrying close to 270 pounds on his 5-foot-11-inch frame, could eschew drinking gallons of water on a scorching day that made the fittest golfers feel drained. Instead, he went with the...

I was concerned by the Pepsi/Diet Pepsi advertisement on the back page of the Feb. 5 special section about African-Americans. Below a picture of four black children were the words "Separate but Equal." I assumed that the words were referring to Pepsi and Diet Pepsi, but those three words represent to many the call for segregation. I seem to remember a U.S. Supreme Court decision that said separate but equal was unconstitutional, and I am wondering if anyone at Pepsi or at the Tribune know that.

Although I've been a diet soda pop junkie for nearly 30 years, I am not ignorant of the fact that the fizzy liquid is bad for me in many ways. But recent studies that showed people who drink diet pop are more likely to be obese finally made me take some action. Food and a cold, caffeinated pop are an integral combination for me. Along with my 20-ounce bottle of chilled Diet Pepsi after breakfast, I would pop almonds (at 7 calories apiece) non-stop or yearn for a gigantic,...

Oh, deer! In France, a frightened deer charged and killed a hunter by stabbing his antler through the hunter's heart. As the deer fled, one of the hunter's companions shot the deer. Uh-oh Pennsylvania resident Christopher Burnette, 25, the first person charged with falsely reporting that he found a hypodermic needle in a can of Diet Pepsi, was sentenced to one year in jail for contributing to the hoax.

By Jura Koncius and Annie Groer, The Washington Post | December 25, 2006

Liz Scott tells the tale of a Christmas party she attended earlier this month, where the first thing she noticed was a festive martini bar, complete with sparkling glassware, swizzle sticks and recipe cards for raspberry martinis. Scott, a recovering alcoholic, does not drink, and her hostess knew it. But there was scant acknowledgment of this in the party setup. "I have some Diet Pepsi in there," the woman told Scott, waving her into the kitchen to find her own...

Oct 17 (Reuters) - PepsiCo Inc reported lower quarterly earnings on Wednesday, after the stronger U.S. dollar hurt revenue. The maker of Diet Pepsi, Frito-Lay snacks and Tropicana orange juice said net income was $1.90 billion, or $1.21 per share, down from $2.00 billion, or $1.25 per share, a year earlier. Revenue fell 5 percent to $16.65 billion.

Somehow they seem human. Human enough, anyway, to provoke anger -- or if not anger, exactly, then a junior stage of anger such as irritation, pique, annoyance. You seethe and scowl. You sulk. You get steamed and irked and peeved, but not irrationally furious. Not homicidal. Which is probably good. When vending machines don't do what they're supposed to do -- cheerfully accept the requisite number of coins or the ironed-flat-with-a-fist dollar bill and then smoothly deliver the goods...